⁵ Does a wild donkey^(A) bray^(B) when it has grass,
    or an ox bellow when it has fodder?^(C)

¹² But the witless can no more become wise
    than a wild donkey’s colt^(A) can be born human.^[a](B)

⁵ Like wild donkeys^(A) in the desert,
    the poor go about their labor^(B) of foraging food;
    the wasteland^(C) provides food for their children.